Finally got around to doing this. Mostly went smooth, getting the brace off took a little effort (I used large pieces of wood, bad idea).
I didnt pay attn when the op said to use a "small" piece of wood. Someone else mentioned in another thread to be careful not to block the cross member brace when it comes off.
I overcame this with finesse, and adjusted my wood and jack around until the brace came off. The rest was a walk in the park.
note: this was enough to block the brace, even with the wood shifted to the left
as per usual, suck out the dirty stuff
dump into a sous vide clear container (measurement markings are nice)
yuck. very dark and smelly
(set aside a small sample for uoa testing)
refill with new fluid, I used about 600ml
reinstall plug and tighten down to 60 nm
a nice cold beer after putting away all tools and cleaning up
